Новости за 05.07.2017

Stephen Hawking recently described a runaway climate scenario in which Earth turns into a hothouse planet like Venus, but most climate experts say it is a gross exaggeration.

Country music legends Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood visited NASA's mission control and sang to the astronauts on the space station.

See what's up in the night sky for July 2017, including stargazing events and the moon's phases, in this Space.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.

The Juno spacecraft is preparing to fly close over Jupiter's Great Red Spot, with a little help from the probe's ground-based friends.

Find out what's up in your night sky during June 2017 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully sent the Intelsat 35e satellite into orbit today (July 5) in the company's third launch in the last 12 days.

On July 5, 2017, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully lofted the 13,000-lb. (6,000 kilograms) Intelsat 35e satellite to Earth orbit. See photos of the launch here.

Vector, one of a number of companies developing small launch vehicles in response to growing small satellite demand, announced June 29 that it closed a $21 million funding round.

Just how clean are spacecraft clean rooms? Turns out, they have some dirty little secrets.

Spaceborne instruments provide evidence the climate is changing, from vanishing sea ice and rising seas to changes in soil moisture and more.

The speediest stars zipping through the Milky Way galaxy are runaways from a small neighboring galaxy, according to a new study.

When NASA finally launched its long-awaited sounding-rocket mission from Wallops Island, Virginia, early birds along the U.S. East Coast were treated to a spectacular show of glowing, multicolor clouds drifting through the sky.

North Korea did indeed test-launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) yesterday, as the nuclear-armed nation claimed, U.S. officials said.

People have been describing and documenting eclipses for thousands of years.